Robertsdale, AL 36567 Frost Dates
36567, near Robertsdale, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/05, roughly 189 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
Robertsdale sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Robertsdale's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Robertsdale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 264 frost-free days, Robertsdale places 6,060 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 98 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36567: local microclimates, on what one yard in Robertsdale can differ from the 36567 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Robertsdale's frost date answer different questions.